12-letter words containing o, u, t, s, l, e
- stunt double — someone who performs dangerous stunts in a film in place of an actor
- stupendously — causing amazement; astounding; marvelous: stupendous news.
- subeditorial — of or relating to a subeditor, the work of a subeditor or a subeditorship
- subjectional — the act of subjecting.
- sublineation — an underlining
- subthreshold — (of a stimulus) too weak to produce a response.
- suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- super-polite — showing good manners toward others, as in behavior, speech, etc.; courteous; civil: a polite reply.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- superovulate — to produce more than the normal number of ova at one time, as through hormone treatment.
- suppletorily — supplying a deficiency.
- surmountable — to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over: to surmount a hill.
- take counsel — receive advice
- talent scout — a person whose business it is to recognize and recruit persons of marked aptitude for a certain field or occupation, especially in entertainment or sports.
- telanthropus — a genus of fossil hominids, known from two fragmentary lower jaws found in the region of Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, South Africa.
- teleosaurian — of or relating to the teleosaur
- teleostomous — relating or belonging to the Teleostomi
- teleutospore — a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium.
- tenuirostral — pertaining to a group of birds Tenuirostres which have slender bills
- the absolute — ultimate reality regarded as uncaused, unmodified, unified and complete, timeless, etc.
- the populars — cheap newspapers with mass circulation; the popular press
- the troubles — political unrest or public disturbances
- theoclymenus — (in the Odyssey) a seer who foretold the return of Odysseus and the death of Penelope's suitors.
- thiosulphate — any salt of thiosulphuric acid
- to cut loose — If a person or an organization cuts loose or is cut loose, they become free from the influence or authority of other people.
- tone cluster — a group of adjacent notes played on a keyboard instrument typically with the fist, forearm, or elbow, similar groupings also occurring in orchestral music.
- tool subject — a subject that, when mastered, equips students with a skill useful in studying other subjects: Grammar is a tool subject for English composition.
- tremendously — extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
- triadelphous — (of stamens) united by the filaments into three sets or bundles.
- tricephalous — with three heads
- trouble spot — an area in which trouble exists or is expected to develop: There are several diplomatic trouble spots in Central America.
- troubleshoot — to act or be employed as a troubleshooter: She troubleshoots for a large industrial firm.
- trouser clip — a clip that is worn around the bottom of a trouser leg to stop the material getting caught in the chain of a bicycle
- true colours — If you see someone in their true colours or if they show their true colours, you realize what they are really like.
- tuberculosed — tuberculous
- tuberculosis — an infectious disease that may affect almost any tissue of the body, especially the lungs, caused by the organism Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and characterized by tubercles.
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- ultraserious — extremely serious
- ultroneously — spontaneously; voluntarily
- uncle tomism — a policy of relationship between whites and blacks involving a benevolent but patronizing attitude on the part of the whites and a willingly submissive attitude on the part of the blacks.
- underclothes — clothes worn under outer clothes.
- unhospitable — not hospitable
- unpoliteness — the quality or state of being impolite
- unrestorable — to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order.
- vasoligature — vasoligation.
- vesiculation — characterized by or covered with vesicles.
- volunteerism — voluntarism (def 2).
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.